You know I love referencing and quoting TV shows. Usually you won't know the reference, so you'll sit there while I explain the plotline to an episode of Bob's Burgers that I haven't even watched myself, but one time I saw a clip of it on youtube and it got stuck in my brain, and mid-conversation I decided I want it in your brain too.

Well these past few days I've noticed something new. I still love references, that hasn't changed. But now I feel like we're building a common vocabulary of references as we experience life together, and instead of references to TV shows or stories it's references to our memories together. Little things like the salty chocolate skull in Greece, or the girl that ran up to our table and hugged the cat sitting with us in Turkey. More and more often my references aren't references to niche shows anymore, but references to memories that only the two of us have.

I want you to know that I'm grateful for these memories. My brain latched onto those TV show references because so often those shows were significant in some way to how I think and how I feel, and our memories together occupy the same space in my life now. I'm grateful for you, and I love you.